Graham Laycock introducing Rachel Dutton from the Guildford Astronomical Society and Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society featuring the latest developments in Astronomy and Space plus Astrocast looking at what to watch for in the coming month, Target of the Month and news of forthcoming local events.

Rachel Dutton from the Guildford Astronomical Society and Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society with news of Kosmos 482, launched 53 years ago and never made it out of Earth's orbit and instead broke into four pieces that have been circling the planet ever since and one piece re-entered the atmosphere on Saturday 10th May.

Did we find life on K2-18B, a Tatooine planet with a strange orbit, Hubbles' 35th Birthday, clues as to where Mars' atmosphere went, the all female Blue Origin flight carrying a Nobel Peace Prize nominee who is also a bioastronautics researcher, NASA astronaut returns to Earth on his 70th birthday, and China's space rescue.

Rachel Dutton from the Guildford Astronomical Society and Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society with news about extraterestial life that may have been discovered on a planet 124 light years away.

Rachel Dutton from the Guildford Astronomical Society and Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society with new of a comet sighting this weekend.

The strange spiral in the sky over Europe, lunar and solar eclipses, images of Deimos, the first Euclid data release, did the latest Frankenstein experiments work? And what is going on with Saturn? Over 100 new moons but it's rings disappeared.  In space news we have Sunni and Butch finally returning to Earth, greeted by dolphins, the first 100% successful commercial moon landing and an image of the eclipse taken from the Moon.

Do you need to worry about asteroid 2024 Y4? Did we find life on the asteroid Bennu? the end of ESA's Gaia mission, a bullseye galaxy and the most complete Einstein Ring yet. In space news, "stranded" astronauts update, de-orbiting the ISS but a new module is ready for the next space station, Blue Origin Job cuts, and Blue Ghost is headed to the Moon.

We cover the latest news in whether dark energy is an illusion, the end of Gaia's science mission and how to image a spacecraft 1 million miles away, exocomet belts, the comet that became a headless ghost, comets hidden in the Kepler data, the Planetary Parade, Blue Origin New Glenn Rocket, Starship flight 7 and how a Tesla Roader got mistaken for an asteroid.

December news stories and round up the year's biggest stories with JWST's 2nd Birthday, the 25th anniversary of the Chandra X Ray observatory, the auroras we have had and Solar Maximum. We have also had comets, eclipses, and some amazing discoveries on Mars. We recap all the successful and failed moon landings, the Starship launches, booster catches and the Boeing Starliner saga. We've also had ESA and NASA astronaut graduations and the first every commercial space walk.

In this month's episode we discuss, anti-cyclonic gloom, our first close up image of a star outside the Milky Way, zebra Pulsars, hairy black holes, images of Uranus and oceans on Miranda. The 100th woman in space, how to make emergency calls on the Moon, the Hera Mission, wooden satellites and cracks in the ISS.